Ashley Taylor

 Ashley is a board-certified music therapist and pre-licensure Marriage & Family Therapist who has a background in supporting those who are expanding or shifting their relationships, grieving a loss, or expecting a child. She primarily works with families, couples, and polycules who are navigating various life transitions, as well as individuals who are exploring their identity, sexuality, or relationship with their body & self-worth. Her work is grounded in family systems thinking, fat liberation, and pleasure activism. Ashley believes in connecting participants in therapy to resources within themselves and their communities.

Ashley brings a layered background of multi-disciplinary education, trainings, and experiences that have prepared her to support others from "cradle to grave" of the human experience. Part of this background includes teaching writing and literary arts, training in music therapy-assisted childbirth and reproductive mental health, and working in hospice, library, and residential treatment settings. As she has moved through these various settings, Ashley's commitment to anti-capitalism, decolonization, and body liberation has continued to grow and evolve. She remains a steadfast learner along all of these paths and welcomes reflexivity within the relational process of learning and working with colleagues, students, and therapy participants. 

Ashley's greatest wish in meeting humans within any type of learning or growing setting is that each person has the space to meet their body, their emotions, and their ideas with compassion, autonomy, and safety. In settings that are not set up for this space to exist, she strives to work collaboratively to examine and dismantle barriers so that more room might be created for each member of a system to live safely, fully, and freely. She sees both therapeutic and educational settings as places that have the potential for information to be exchanged between all members in a way that enhances the capacity for any system to become less restrictive and more liberated.

• M.M.T., Slippery Rock University
• M.Ed., Slippery Rock University
• B.A., Slippery Rock University

• Relational Therapy
• Body Liberation
• Sex Education & Pleasure Activism
• Death & Dying 
• Reproductive Mental Health